The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEINYes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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No one will do it for you.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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I don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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